A sense of our weakness

One qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God's work well and triumphantly is a sense of our own weakness.

When God's warrior marches forth to battle with plumed helmet, and with mail about his loins, strong in his own majesty - when he says, "I know that I shall conquer, my own right arm and my mighty sword shell get unto me the victory," defeat is not far distant. God will not go forth with that man who goes forth in his own strength. - For “it is not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of Hosts” (Zech 4:6).

C.H.S.